Science Quotes
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The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
Thomas Hobbes
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The science is my passion, the policy work my social duty. I think there's no other issue in the world that causes such suffering and which could be improved simply by rethinking. Millions of people are in jail just because they used consciousness-altering substances without causing any harm to others. I think it is an affront to human rights and dignity. What you do with your consciousness is your own business.
Amanda Feilding
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Science always uses metaphor.
James Lovelock
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To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. How humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.
Alfred Smee
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I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.
Kenneth Arrow
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I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.
Ernest K. Gann
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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
Annalee Newitz
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
Bill Nye
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Science is a form of arrogance control.
Elliot Aronson
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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal
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Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.
Steven Chu
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These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.
William Shakespeare
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The hand is where the mind meets the world.
Carl Zimmer
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I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.
Brian Greene
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Jean Rostand
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As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
Eric Kandel
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I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'
Luis Fonsi
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Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
George Porter
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Science describes not just the observable world but also the world that lies beyond the appearances. This is a rough statement of realism with respect to science.
Alan Chalmersun
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There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives.
William Thomas Councilman
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The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.
Gerald Weinberg